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in·tel·li·gence
[in-tel-i-juh
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[in-tel-i-juh
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| 1. | capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc. |
| 2. | manifestation of a high mental capacity: He writes with intelligence and wit. |
| 3. | the faculty of understanding. |
| 4. | knowledge of an event, circumstance, etc., received or imparted; news; information. |
| 5. | the gathering or distribution of information, esp. secret information. |
| 6. | Government.
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| 7. | interchange of information: They have been maintaining intelligence with foreign agents for years. |
| 8. | Christian Science. a fundamental attribute of God, or infinite Mind. |
| 9. | (often initial capital letter ) an intelligent being or spirit, esp. an incorporeal one, as an angel. |
—Antonyms 2. stupidity.
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| in·tel·li·gence
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
intelligence
intelligence
1390, "faculty of understanding," from O.Fr. intelligence (12c.), from L. intelligentia "understanding," from intelligentem (nom. intelligens) "discerning," prp. of intelligere "to understand, comprehend," from inter- "between" + legere "choose, pick out, read" (see lecture). Meaning superior understanding, sagacity" is from c.1430. Sense of "information, news" first recorded c.1450, especially "secret information from spies" (1587). Intelligent is a 1509 back-formation; Intelligentsia "the intellectual class collectively" is 1907, from Rus. intelligyentsia, from Latin. Intelligence quotient first recorded 1922 (see I.Q.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
| intelligence | |
noun | |
| 1. | the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience [ant: stupidity] |
| 2. | a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy |
| 3. | secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy); "we sent out planes to gather intelligence on their radar coverage" |
| 4. | information about recent and important events; "they awaited news of the outcome" [syn: news] |
| 5. | the operation of gathering information about an enemy |
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American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
intelligence in·tel·li·gence (ĭn-těl'ə-jəns)
n.
- The capacity to acquire and apply knowledge, especially toward a purposeful goal.
- An individual's relative standing on two quantitative indices, namely measured intelligence, as expressed by an intelligence quotient, and effectiveness of adaptive behavior.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Intelligence
In*tel"li*gence\, n. [F. intelligence, L. intelligentia, intellegentia. See Intelligent.]1. The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding. 2. The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment. And dimmed with darkness their intelligence. --Spenser. 3. Information communicated; news; notice; advice. Intelligence is given where you are hid. --Shak. 4. Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity. [Obs.] He lived rather in a fair intelligence than any friendship with the favorites. --Clarendon. 5. Knowledge imparted or acquired, whether by study, research, or experience; general information. I write as he that none intelligence Of meters hath, ne flowers of sentence. --Court of Love. 6. An intelligent being or spirit; -- generally applied to pure spirits; as, a created intelligence. --Milton. The great Intelligences fair That range above our mortal state, In circle round the blessed gate, Received and gave him welcome there. --Tennyson. Intelligence office, an office where information may be obtained, particularly respecting servants to be hired. Syn: Understanding; intellect; instruction; advice; notice; notification; news; information; report.
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